Three former officials told The Washington Post that fraud detection officers at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services have been reassigned to screen state voter data for noncitizens who registered to vote, and are...
Attorney General Todd Blanche said on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday, Aug. 16 that it is "absolutely" a possibility the Justice Department will ask the Supreme Court to review the cases it has lost seeking states'...
A federal appeals court on Friday, Aug. 14 denied the Justice Department's petition for rehearing before the full Sixth Circuit in its effort to obtain Michigan's complete, unredacted qualified voter file, which lists...
The New York Times reported on Aug. 10, 2026 that DHS is intensively pursuing deportation of noncitizens on voter rolls, including people who say they registered inadvertently at motor vehicle agencies and never voted...
U.S. District Judge Colleen Lawless of Illinois’ Central District rejected the Justice Department’s suit seeking full access to the state’s voter registration database, which covers more than 8 million residents. In a...
The Justice Department on July 21, 2026 asked New Jersey to provide the identities of about 6,600 noncitizens it said had been mistakenly added to the state's voter rolls, and said it is considering criminal prosecutions...
On July 17, 2026, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told top election officials in all 50 states and the District of Columbia that they could face criminal charges if they do not run their voter rolls through...
Pennsylvania officials said in mid-July 2026 that the Department of Homeland Security is withholding roughly $15 million of about $33 million in counterterrorism and cybersecurity grants allocated to the state, pending...
On July 7, 2026, U.S. District Judge T. Kent Wetherell II in Pensacola, Florida, ordered the Department of Homeland Security to restore bulk-upload and Social Security number search features of the SAVE...
On July 7, 2026, the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, under Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, sent letters to election officials in at least 14 states — including Arizona, Georgia, Michigan...